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[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

lol, yes. Thank you I disabled secureboot and it boots ok now. Thanks for the feedback it does help understanding a bit about how this all works. If that wasn't obvious enough I'm a big noob with Linux.

Anyway, can I leave secureboot disabled and be fine? or is this MOK business something I should solve right now?

Thanks again

[–] JPAKx4@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My understanding is secure boot is kinda worthless so it's not that important to sort out. It let's the bios trust the OS but that is a fairly limited attack vector. I don't know enough about it though, so feel free to enroll the MOK keys bc it's not that hard tbh, just annoying

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ok thank you! I'd do it but I don't fully understand the implications. Can I for instance re-generate a MOK key from whatever distro I install next and use that?

[–] JPAKx4@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I believe so. You just enroll the new keys and then you're good

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 points 6 days ago

oh alright. I'll try it. I must have missed a step in the tutorial the first time, or mistyped something... Cheers,